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"On June 3rd, 1976, Allyson and I had a simultaneous vision, a mystical experience that changed our lives and our art. We sacramentally ingested LSD and lay in bed. Entering an altered state of consciousness, released from the dream of physical reality, I awakened as a glowing toroidal fountain of love energy, part of a vast Universal Mind Lattice, a matrix of interconnectedness with all beings. Duality of self and other was transcended in this infinite dimension beyond gender, beyond birth and death, a luminous cell in the body of God that felt more alive and more real than my physical body.
Opening my eyes to behold Allyson and our bedroom once again, she reported her experience as exactly mirroring my own. She had visited the same transpersonal dimension and then drew the beautiful vista into which I had just dissolved. The infinite net of spirit transformed our lives, and became the subject and focus of our art. I discovered near-death experience reports and other psychedelic experiences that related powerfully. The Sacred Mirrors series features a painting of the Universal Mind Lattice, revealing the geometric infrastructure of interconnected beings of light. All the art we have done since then has been influenced by insights from that and related visionary mystical experiences."----Alex Grey
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"In the excepts of the Exegesis reworked into the “Tractates Crytptica Scriptura” that close the novel VALIS, Dick expresses the MIT computer scientist Edward Fredkin’s view that the universe is composed of information. The world we experience is a hologram, “a hypostasis of information” that we, as nodes in the true Mind, process. “We hypostasize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of information. This is the language we have lost the ability to read.”[4] With this Adamic code scrambled, both ourselves and the world as we know it are “occluded,” cut off from the brimming “Matrix” of cosmic information. Instead, we are under the sway of the “Black Iron Prison,” Dick’s terms for the demiurgic worldly forces of political tyranny and oppressive social control. Rome is the eternal paragon of this “Empire,” whose archetypal lineaments the feverish Dick recognized in the Nixon administration.
Just as William Blake condensed the coming horrors of industrialism into his image of “Satanic mills,” Dick’s Black Iron Prison imaginatively captured the “disciplinary apparatus” of power analyzed by historian Michel Foucault. Demonstrating that prisons, mental institutions, schools, and military establishments all share similar organizations of space and time, Foucault argued that a “technology of power” was distributed throughout social space, enmeshing human subjects at every turn. Foucault argued that liberal social reforms are only cosmetic brush-ups of an underlying mechanism of control. As Dick put it, “The Empire never ended.”
VALIS invades this spurious world of control in order to liberate us. For Dick, this “living information…replicates itself–not through information or in information–but as information.”[5] VALIS is a virus, a kind of metaphysical DNA that encodes the Logos or “Word” that opens the Gospel of St. John. Birth from the spirit occurs when the information plasmate “penetrate(s) the world, replicating in human brains, crossbanding with them and assisting them…”[6] Dick calls these hybrid humans “homeoplasmates”. At one point Dick believed that when the last of the homeoplasmates were killed off with the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 C.E., “real time ceased.” The plasmate reentered human history in 1945, when jars stuffed with ancient gnostic codices were discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt.
In order to snake its way into the Black Iron Prison, “the true God” must mimic “sticks and trees and beer cans in gutters.” Dick’s God “presumes to be trash discarded, debris no longer needed,” so that “lurking, the true God literally ambushes reality and us as well.”[7] Here Dick suggests a kind of liberation info-theology, a set of guerrilla tactics for our saturated data age: stick to the fringes of the spectacle, pay attention to marginal or discarded information, and never let your beliefs get in the way of surprise. Dick knew well that the political and metaphysical search for secret orders of power invites the black iron prison of paranoia, but he also recognized that “Surprise is an antidote to paranoia.”---- https://techgnosis.com/philip-k-dicks-di...erference/
233 Mystical Art Paintings..
https://www.pinterest.com/kuanyin333/mystical-art/
Opening my eyes to behold Allyson and our bedroom once again, she reported her experience as exactly mirroring my own. She had visited the same transpersonal dimension and then drew the beautiful vista into which I had just dissolved. The infinite net of spirit transformed our lives, and became the subject and focus of our art. I discovered near-death experience reports and other psychedelic experiences that related powerfully. The Sacred Mirrors series features a painting of the Universal Mind Lattice, revealing the geometric infrastructure of interconnected beings of light. All the art we have done since then has been influenced by insights from that and related visionary mystical experiences."----Alex Grey
"In the excepts of the Exegesis reworked into the “Tractates Crytptica Scriptura” that close the novel VALIS, Dick expresses the MIT computer scientist Edward Fredkin’s view that the universe is composed of information. The world we experience is a hologram, “a hypostasis of information” that we, as nodes in the true Mind, process. “We hypostasize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of information. This is the language we have lost the ability to read.”[4] With this Adamic code scrambled, both ourselves and the world as we know it are “occluded,” cut off from the brimming “Matrix” of cosmic information. Instead, we are under the sway of the “Black Iron Prison,” Dick’s terms for the demiurgic worldly forces of political tyranny and oppressive social control. Rome is the eternal paragon of this “Empire,” whose archetypal lineaments the feverish Dick recognized in the Nixon administration.
Just as William Blake condensed the coming horrors of industrialism into his image of “Satanic mills,” Dick’s Black Iron Prison imaginatively captured the “disciplinary apparatus” of power analyzed by historian Michel Foucault. Demonstrating that prisons, mental institutions, schools, and military establishments all share similar organizations of space and time, Foucault argued that a “technology of power” was distributed throughout social space, enmeshing human subjects at every turn. Foucault argued that liberal social reforms are only cosmetic brush-ups of an underlying mechanism of control. As Dick put it, “The Empire never ended.”
VALIS invades this spurious world of control in order to liberate us. For Dick, this “living information…replicates itself–not through information or in information–but as information.”[5] VALIS is a virus, a kind of metaphysical DNA that encodes the Logos or “Word” that opens the Gospel of St. John. Birth from the spirit occurs when the information plasmate “penetrate(s) the world, replicating in human brains, crossbanding with them and assisting them…”[6] Dick calls these hybrid humans “homeoplasmates”. At one point Dick believed that when the last of the homeoplasmates were killed off with the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 C.E., “real time ceased.” The plasmate reentered human history in 1945, when jars stuffed with ancient gnostic codices were discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt.
In order to snake its way into the Black Iron Prison, “the true God” must mimic “sticks and trees and beer cans in gutters.” Dick’s God “presumes to be trash discarded, debris no longer needed,” so that “lurking, the true God literally ambushes reality and us as well.”[7] Here Dick suggests a kind of liberation info-theology, a set of guerrilla tactics for our saturated data age: stick to the fringes of the spectacle, pay attention to marginal or discarded information, and never let your beliefs get in the way of surprise. Dick knew well that the political and metaphysical search for secret orders of power invites the black iron prison of paranoia, but he also recognized that “Surprise is an antidote to paranoia.”---- https://techgnosis.com/philip-k-dicks-di...erference/
233 Mystical Art Paintings..
https://www.pinterest.com/kuanyin333/mystical-art/